Moral reality /
Paul Bloomfield offers a rigorous defense of moral realism, developing an ontology for morality that models the property of being morally good on the property of being physically healthy. The model is assembled systematically; it first presents the metaphysics of healthiness and goodness, then expla...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2001.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | Paul Bloomfield offers a rigorous defense of moral realism, developing an ontology for morality that models the property of being morally good on the property of being physically healthy. The model is assembled systematically; it first presents the metaphysics of healthiness and goodness, then explains our epistemic access to properties such as these, adds a complementary analysis of the semantics and syntax of moral discourse, and finishes with a discussion of how we become motivated to act morally. Bloomfield closely attends to the traditional challenges facing moral realism, and the discussion ranges from modern medical theory to ancient theories of virtue, and from animal navigation to the nature of normativity. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xvi, 208 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-203) and index. |
| ISBN: | 1429401885 9781429401883 9780199833092 0199833095 9780195137132 0195137132 |